A candle for Hossein
Kurdish human rights activist arrested in Qamishli
Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF , Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD and Kurdish Committee for Human Rights in Syria – al-Rased report the arrest of Walid Mahmoud Youssef, member of the Board of Trustees of the Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, in Qamishli on 23 December 2010. He is a pharmacist and was taken from a doctor’s clinic on the prextext of an inquiry about some personal matters. Since that time there has been no information of his whereabouts or the reasons for his arrest, and he has been isolated from the outside world. Walid Mahmoud Youssef , born 1971, is a graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy in the former Soviet Union. He lives in Qamishli with his wife and three children. Read more
Three Kurdish men arrested for organising poetry festival in Syria
According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF and Kurdish Committee for Human Rights in Syria – al-Rased, two Kurdish poets and the owner of a house have been arrested against the background of organising a poetry festival. They were brought before the individual military judge in Qamishli on 21 December 2010:
- Omar Abdi Ismail (poet).
- Abdul Samad Hussain Mahmoud (poet).
- Ahmed Fattah Ismail (homeowner). Read more
Waleda Sheikhmous Boti case adjourned
According to Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, and Kurdish Committee for Human Rights in Syria – al-Rased, on 20 December 2010 the individual military judge in Qamishli postponed the trial of Waleda Sheikhmous Boti, born 1967, from Hassaka and a stateless Kurdish woman. She has been in detention for two months and she was released to return for the hearing on 26 December 2010 when the defence would put her case.
She was detained under customary law after being summoned by political security in Hassakeh, charged with belonging to the women’s banned political organization – Sittar Federation Women’s organisation.
Political Security forces arrest another Kurd in Syria
According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, and Kurdish Committee for Human Rights in Syria – al-Rased, political security forces in Deyrik in Hasakah province arrested Yusuf Haji Yusuf on Thursday, 16 December 2010. It is believed that the reason for his arrest comes against the backdrop of his interest in public affairs, and at the time of writing he continues to be isolated from the outside world and his whereabouts are unknown. Read more
Arif Shekho and Ahmad Najib remain in detention in Syria
Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD reports that the following people were referred to the military courts in Aleppo on Tuesday, 14 October 2010:
- Nizar Najib
- Dlkhwaz Najib
- Ahmad Najib
- Arif Shekho
Nizar and Dilkhwaz Najib were released by the military prosecutor of Aleppo, but Ahmad Najib and Arif Shekho continue to be detaineed in custody at the central prison in Aleppo.
Ahmad Najib and his two sons were arrested on 8 June 2010 in Kobani by a security patrol in the region. Arif Shekho was arrested on 15 June 2010 in the town of Afrin.
Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD calls for the release of the two detained men, and all political prisoners
18 October 2010
Previous report:
Re: Arif Shekho http://supportkurds.org/news/the-former-candidate-for-the-parliamentary-syrian-people%E2%80%99s-assembly-arif-shekho-is-still-unaccounted-for
An urgent apeal to the public opinion about the detainee Tahsein Khairi Mamo
To Gentlemen officials:
Amnesty International.
And Human Rights Watch.
Greetings:
We would like to inform you that the detainee Tahsein Khairi Mamo, who was arrested in the city of Aleppo – Al-Sheikh Maksoud – with four others of his comrades Nazmi Mohamed Hanan, Dilkash Shamo Mamo, Ahmed Khalil Darwish, Yasha Khaled Qadir, who are all members of our party – the Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria – were taken by military intelligence after they broke into Yasha Khaled’s house on 29 January 2007, is still missing. His fate has been unknown over the last two years in spite of his parents’ repeated and continued attempts in asking the related authorities to get information about his fate, and they did not receive any answers until now. They are afraid that he might have been killed under torture, and all the information confirms that he is no longer alive and that the authorities are keeping silent about it. Read more
Another arrest of a Kurdish man in Syria
Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD and Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD report that Hassan Abdel-Kader Nassan was arrested by Security Services in the province of Aleppo, on 27 September 2010. Hassan Abdel-Kader Nassan, born in 1979, and from Afrin is isolated from the outside world, and there is no information about where he is, why he was arrested or the reason for his detention. Read more
Forcibly deported Kurd from Denmark probably jailed and tortured
On Wednesday 22 September 2010, Asylret informed that an asylum seeker would be forcibly deported to Syria.
Adnan Ibrahim was deported to Syria after 18 months in Denmark where two-thirds of his family lives and where the rest had gone underground; for example a father who – rightly – feared a forced deportation to Syria. Read more
Abdul Hafiz Abdul al-Rahman – trial continues
Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF and Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD and Kurdish Committee for Human Rights in Syria – al-Rased report that the defence hearing in the trial of Abdul Hafiz Abdul al-Rahman took place on 19 September 2010 before third military judge in Aleppo. He has been charged with the crime of belonging to a banned political association on the basis of Article 288 in case number 6951 of 2010.
Abdel Hafiz Abdel Rahman, is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF. The trial was adjourned to 29 September 2010.
19 September 2010
